Are human beings humean robots?

Are Humean Chances Formally Adequate?

This paper argues that the Humean theory of chance is formally adequate in the sense that it satisfies the axioms of finitely additive probability. To this end, firstly, a functionalist account of chance is defended, according to which chance is a functional property and the function relevant to chance is to constrain an agent’s credence in the manner prescribed by David Lewis’s Principal Princ...

Brucella Infection Causing Abortion in Human Beings

On cloning human beings.

The purpose of this paper is to show that arguments for and against cloning fail to make their case because of one or both of the following reasons: 1) they take for granted customary beliefs and assumptions that are far from being unquestionable; 2) they tend to ignore the context in which human cloning is developed. I will analyze some of the assumptions underlying the main arguments that hav...

Gnathostomiasis in Human Beings

Humean Dispositionalism

Humean metaphysics is characterised by a rejection of necessary connections between distinct existences. Dispositionalists claim that there are basic causal powers. The existence of such properties is widely held to be incompatible with the Humean rejection of necessary connections. In this paper I present a novel theory of causal powers that vindicates the dispositionalist claim that causal po...